Definition of cheating: take note, Barry Bonds

OK, folks... just when I've heard it all... last week's press conference orchestrated by Giants' slugger Barry Bonds proved to the entire world of what a blithering idiot this guy really is.

Even moreso when he responded to a question from a reporter asking whether using steroids is cheating.

Bonds' response: "I don't know what cheating is".

OK... and I don't know what a dumba$$ is.

Let us recap what the meaning of the word "cheating" is.

1. Looking over your classmates' answers during a test is considered cheating.

2. Filing a fictitious income tax return is considered cheating.

3. Taking illegal drugs to advance and perform better in sports is considered cheating.

and 4. Using steroids is considered cheating.

If Bonds' doesn't know what cheating is, then I wonder how the hell he graduated from high school, let alone grade school.

Sorry for these harsh words, but I love baseball. I grew up with the sport, seen the sport live and actually played the sport. And to have baseball ruined because someone decided to inject steroids, to me, and for a low-class bum to avoid telling the truth about steroids by coming up with insane answers as "it's like reruns of Sanford and Son" is very sad.

Jerry Coleman of the Padres, who really is the saving grace of true athletes in baseball, sums up his feelings this way: if Coleman was emperor, he would suspend someone for a month if caught the first time, one year the second time, and the third time, banned for life.

Perhaps the baseball commissioner should take Coleman's advice to good use.